LUTHER BURBANK, THE MAN 

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But there came a day he never forgot, a red- 

 letter day m his calendar. He had left the 

 factory and had begun market-gardening and 

 seed-raising in a smaUway . ft^^J 

 his taste and m direct line with the future. 

 He had noticed that there were a good many 

 variations m the green tops of some potatoes 

 e was raising, and that in this particular lol 

 there was but one which bore a seed-ball. He 



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 ? this seed-ball came upon but one of all 



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he watched th.s seed-ball with unusual care 

 One day, to his despair, he found that the seed^ 

 ball was nnssmg. He was about to gi ve up 

 the whole matter when it occurred to him he 

 would make a search upon the ground He 

 found the seed-ball at l ast , where it had been 

 knocked off probably by some wandering dog 

 rushing through the garden. 



From it came the Burbank potato which 

 comparatively fewpeople associate witli 



